Peter Blecha gives in his book Sonic Boom – The History of Northwest Rock [2009] an unusually well-founded and detailed account of the formation of the Pacific Northwest’s music scene in the 50s and its […]
Robert Gordon has built an impressive CV over the past decades that has a wide, but interconnected, spectrum of activities – from production of films and music videos to articles and books. Most of his […]
Stuck with the Memphis Book Again Blues, I guess (see previous reviews of Peter Guralnick’s Sam Phillips – The Man who invented Rock’n’Roll and Robert Gordon’s Memphis Rent Party – The Blues, Rock & Soul […]
Whenever a new Elvis-book shows up (they frequently still do), I can’t help thinking of these lines in Broken Whiskey Glass by Jason & the Scorchers’s Jason Ringenberg: You went to Memphis to find yourself […]
Will Birch is an English music writer and record producer. He has also worked hands on with music as songwriter and drummer (Kursaal Flyers: 1973–1977, 1985, 1988 and in present century; The Records: 1978–1982). In […]
British post-war migration was foremost concentrated to other parts of the Commonwealth. This export of human capital helped to disseminate the new and exciting music vibes that emanated from London – the epicenter of the […]
“Rent party” refers to a party held by a tenant in order to raise money to pay the rent by charging the guests for attendance fee. Memphis Rent Party is also the title of the […]
It is high time for modernization. Well, sort of. In the present article we are taking at least one step forward in time compared to Even More Real Pop Classics of the 1970s and concentrate […]
Link Wray’s original 1958 Rumble is probably the only instrumental that has been banned on the radio (because it alleged invitation to street violence). Rumble started a new career track for Link Wray, making him […]
It was two score (that’s forty years) (I think) and several tens of thousand dollars ago (of that I’m sure) that I decided to get into the Record Business. For real. (Sort of.) I mean, […]
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